Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organist David Smith presented five works by Jan Sweelinck in two interludes during the program. The Fantasia Chromatica was the standout with its nearbaroque intensity and artifice finishing with an explosion of virtuoso figures. All five pieces were played with intelligence and imaginative registrations. Once again John Adams has provided an outstanding program, bringing together two of the area's very finest choral groups in a sensitive, thoughtful presentation. He did as much with sacred music as is possible in a distinctly secular...
...problems went beyond the physical limits of the workshop. The students worked with the teaching staff in resolving the problems of the entire school. As Mrs. Gropius points out in the recent Jan.-Feb. edition of Architectural Forum, there were two student representatives on the faculty-council where all problems concerning the whole school were discussed openly. A radical aspect of these meetings, more so than letting students on the committee, was that "they never came to decisions by majority vote. Whenever irreconcilable viewpoints persisted among faculty members or with student representatives. Gropius did not try to blunt the issue...
...helped plan the reform program of the Prague Spring; Journalist Jiří Hochman, an editor of what was once a crusading magazine, Reportér; Party Historian Karel Kaplan; and Chess Player Ludek Pachman, an international grand master. Rudolf Slansky Jr. and Jan Sling, sons of the Communist leaders who were executed as "Titoist traitors" after show trials in 1952, were also arrested and then released...
...Jan. 29 vote, Muskie came out on top with 38% of the state delegates, Lindsay garnered 24% and McGovern 20%, with the remaining 18% uncommitted to any candidate. On the face of it, that seemed a reasonable outcome. But when the Democrats tried to apply the formula, they found themselves with a confusing set of fractions. Muskie's 38% of the state convention, applied to Arizona's 25 national delegates, came out to 91 delegates, creating a Solomonic dilemma. Similar mathematical puzzles plagued each camp. Three into two wouldn...
...recently published Let History Judge (TIME, Jan. 17), Roy Medvedev says that Trotsky's conceit was so famous that many of his own supporters called him barin (the lord...